Sam Badawi(@Sam_Badawi):GATES WOULD'VE BEEN RICHER THAN MUSK Bill Gates would have been a trillionaire and the richest man in the world over SpaceX $SPCX and Tesla $TSLA CEO Elon Musk if he had never sold his Microsoft $MSFT stake. But the worst exit by multiple is Ron Wayne, who sold 10% of Apple $AAPL for $800 in 1976, a stake Fortune says could be worth up to $400B today, or 500 million times what he got.

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Sam Badawi@Sam_Badawi

2026.11.08 16:53

GATES WOULD'VE BEEN RICHER THAN MUSK Bill Gates would have been a trillionaire and the richest man in the world over SpaceX $SPCX and Tesla $TSLA CEO Elon Musk if he had never sold his Microsoft $MSFT stake. But the worst exit by multiple is Ron Wayne, who sold 10% of Apple $AAPL for $800 in 1976, a stake Fortune says could be worth up to $400B today, or 500 million times what he got.